Blood

<p>Powerfully involving narrative and incisive detail clarity and inherent drama: <em>Blood</em> offers in abundance the qualities that define the best popular science writing. Here is the sweeping story of a substance that has been feared revered mythologized and used in magic and medicine from earliest times--a substance that has become the center of a huge secretive and often dangerous worldwide commerce.</p><p>Winner of the <em>Los Angeles Times Book</em> Prize <em>Blood</em> was described by judges as a gripping page-turner a significant contribution to the history of medicine and technology and a cautionary tale. Meticulously reported and exhaustively documented.</p>